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Unread post by leen » Mon May 31, 2004 1:25 pm

i just got into these and love the sound...i learned bron-yr-aur and winter solstice by tea party and now looking for more any suggestions?
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Re: Open Tunings

Unread post by dmbguitar718 » Mon May 31, 2004 1:30 pm

leen wrote:i just got into these and love the sound...i learned bron-yr-aur and winter solstice by tea party and now looking for more any suggestions?
I'm not sure if DADGAD is really considered open, but I absolutely love the sound of it. Here's a song I recorded in DADGAD: http://www.patmcinnis.com/oneday.mp3
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Unread post by You_Enjoy_Myself » Mon May 31, 2004 1:52 pm

ah pat, I had a feeling that one day was DADGAD, any tabs yet???

and regarding the topic, open E, EBEG#BE has a nice sound as does open D DADF#AD. Its really easy to go from DADGAD to open D, just lower your G an extra half step
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Unread post by ericwormann » Mon May 31, 2004 2:14 pm

dmbguitar718 wrote:
leen wrote:i just got into these and love the sound...i learned bron-yr-aur and winter solstice by tea party and now looking for more any suggestions?
I'm not sure if DADGAD is really considered open, but I absolutely love the sound of it. Here's a song I recorded in DADGAD: http://www.patmcinnis.com/oneday.mp3
Rusted Root's Cat Turned Blue is in DADGAD as well. Learn that song, it's really cool.
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Unread post by 2stepingJ » Mon May 31, 2004 2:57 pm

leen wrote:now looking for more any suggestions?
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Unread post by Davy28 » Mon May 31, 2004 3:12 pm

Or if you can manage raised B tuning, go to drop A tuning and it rules.
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Unread post by saleen » Mon May 31, 2004 7:28 pm

2stepingJ wrote:
leen wrote:now looking for more any suggestions?
... "The Rain Song"
I second that!
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Unread post by NoNotThat » Mon May 31, 2004 8:11 pm

open tunings are awesome for fooling around in and making up your own stuff

try nick drake's songs...a lot of those are in tunings like BEBEBE or CGCFCE or something crazy
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Unread post by Thomas » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:47 pm

NoNotThat wrote:open tunings are awesome for fooling around in and making up your own stuff

try nick drake's songs...a lot of those are in tunings like BEBEBE or CGCFCE or something crazy
some of these crazy ones are WAY too limiting for me to ever mess around with.

one of the most beautiful tunings i've ever heard is EAEEBE
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Unread post by ericwormann » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:49 pm

The Goo Goo Dolls and Soundgarden (superunknown album) use a lot of open tunings
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Unread post by madtownjj » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:57 pm

Try she talks to angels by the crowes, it open E

also pearl jam does an open tuning, pretty sure its "daughter"
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Unread post by cj4258 » Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:37 am

^ Sounds familiar. Great song.

I mess around with DADADD all the time. I find myself coming up with Irish/Celtic/Folk melodies. But I'm a nerd like that. :mrgreen:
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Unread post by Davy28 » Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:51 am

celtic and irish music rules. I just love the pennywhistles.
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Unread post by c_tietze » Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:43 am

2stepingJ wrote:
leen wrote:now looking for more any suggestions?
... "The Rain Song"
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Nice avatar.

I like open E since you can use the capo to change keys with ease.

Sometimes I get scared f*cking around w/open tunings because I'm like, "do I even know how to play the guitar in STANDARD?" lol.

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Unread post by johnnyd » Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:11 am

If your into them at all, you can learn a bunch of Rolling Stones songs in open G: DGDGBD. Start Me Up, Brown Sugar and Honkey Tonk Women to name a few. They sound cool and are really easy to learn.
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